The star of Queen's Gambit Anya Taylor-Joy has revealed that she doesn't believe she's "beautiful" enough to be in films.
This comes after the 24-year-old found herself catapulted to an even bigger audience thanks to her role in the hit Netflix series, having previously acted in The Witch, Glass, and the Jane Austen adaptation of Emma.
Taylor-Joy plays an orphan chess prodigy, Beth Harmon, in the Queen's Gambit as she battles personal problems while attempting to become the world's greatest chess player.
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In an interview with The Sun, Taylor-Joy said: "I have never and I don't think I will ever think of myself as beautiful. I don't think I'm beautiful enough to be in films."
Taylor-Joy continued: "It sounds pathetic and my boyfriend warns me people will think I'm an absolute d*** for saying these things, but I just think I'm weird-looking."
"I won't go to the cinema to watch my own film, I'll watch it before. The beauty of being in your own skin is that you don't have to look at your own face."
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In addition to never going to watch her own films, she revealed that she "genuinely had a panic attack" during the creation of Emma.
"I thought, 'I am the first ugly Emma and I can't do this', because the first line in the movie is, 'I'm handsome, clever and rich'," she said.
As per the Independent, Taylor-Joy signed to Storm Management modeling agency at the age of 16.
The actress's next upcoming role is in the Edgar Wright film Last Night in Soho, and she was recently cast in the sequel to Mad Max.
In her interview with the Sun, Taylor-Joy also revealed how she convinced the Queen's Gambit producer, Scott Frank, that she should play its titular character, who she felt like she understood.
Anya said: "It was pretty instantaneous. I read the book in about an hour and a half. And I've never run to or from a meeting before. I don't run, I don't exercise that way. But I ran to meet him."
"I felt like I could really understand that sense of loneliness and just trying so desperately to make sense of a world that didn’t come naturally to Beth and that dependency on chess.
"She comes from a background where every person she has ever met has let her down in some way or abandoned her. She doesn’t trust people, and so she's desperately trying to find a place to fit in. And as a kid, I certainly had elements of that, so I was obsessed with her pretty immediately."